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This website holds two online libraries with over three thousand public-domain books and other resources; all online and free. There's no registration and we don't collect users' personal data. The first library is for history in the Great Lakes region. Start at the directory in the center column of the home page; it leads to over 100 pages of resources. Most item entries have a description.

The Century Past Free Online Library is a collection of books and magazines that might have been found in a small American public library in the 1920s. Everything there is also in the public domain, online, and free. You can reach the Century Past Home page from the menu at the top of any page. For more description about both libraries, see About the Site, found in the top menu.

There is no risk in clicking buttons on this site, as we don't have downloads or executable files. Buttons in center column directories take you to other pages on this website. Buttons on those pages for items, (they say "Go to Book", "Go to Map", etc) are safe links to the items on the websites of other organizations that actually host these free resources. For information about those organizations, see our post New Life for Millions of Disappearing Books.